Comments on: Why I’ve Given Up on Star Wars at Last

By: Alot_Hunter

Alot_Hunter — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:01:26 +0000

Other than the Gendy Tartakovsky Clone Wars Series and the Republic Commando series (both the game and the books, but mainly the game), I’m inclined to agree with you.

By: RadioSlayer

RadioSlayer — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:33:01 +0000

I just said to a friend yesterday that it would be amazing if Ridley Scott directed Star Wars: Episodes VII-IX

By: Nick D Pags

Nick D Pags — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:51:29 +0000

Great article Paul.

By: Mark Jr

Mark Jr — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:39:14 +0000

@Aether McLoud Thanks for saying what I was about to. I trust BioWare could very easily make another KotOR 3 still.

*SW:TOR: REVAN/SW:TOR SPOILER ALERTS:*

There’s a flashpoint for the Republic where you break Revan out of a Maelstrom Prison, and a flashpoint for the Empire where you “kill” Revan. It’s left fairly ambiguous whether or not he actually dies. My point is: it’s still possible to continue Revan’s storyline after this, preferably outside of SW:TOR and in a ME-style KotOR (I’m hopeful for this).

*END SPOILERS*

As others have said, the books are still fantastic but seem to be referring to the Post-Ep. VI books. I can personally recommend the Pre-Ep. I books as well, namely the Darth Bane Trilogy and the SW:TOR trilogy (well, two-thirds of it, Fatal Alliance is such a letdown compared to Deceived and Revan). I haven’t lost hope for the Star Wars universe (lost hope for Lucas looooong ago) because of one thing: Drew Karphyshyn.

In case you don’t know, he was a writer for BioWare (worked on KotOR, ME 1 and half of ME2, as well as the stories for the SW:TOR classes) till he recently left to focus on his books (as well as a new SW:TOR novel) and screenplays. Anyway, the reason my hope lies in him is because he’s an extremely competent writer (he wrote Revan as well as the Darth Bane trilogy) and everything he writes ends up being amazing.

And on a somewhat cynical/dark/light note: George Lucas is old. He could die any day now.

By: Aether McLoud

Aether McLoud — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:51:23 +0000

AFAIK you never played KOTOR 1+2 Paul? Those are the pinnacle of Star Wars storytelling. You mind gets blown while playing them.

The same is true for the SWTOR class storylines.

For me these days: Bioware = grade A Star Wars stories.
LucarArts: some guy who simply wants to make more and more money.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:18:08 +0000

Thank you for coming to your senses, Paul.

By: Diva D

Diva D — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:18:02 +0000

@Scythe
+1

Nobody involved in making this game was concerned with continuing Han’s character arc. It’s just supposed to be goofy. And yes, it looks dumb but I have yet to see a dancing game that doesn’t. I’d the songs were better I’d probably think it amusing too.

Either way I don’t see what it has to do with the movies, at least not really.

By: Scythe

Scythe — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:08:12 +0000

I thought The Old Republic was great and I don’t know why anyone would take the dancing in the Kinect game seriously. It’s apparent that the developers had a lot of fun with this game mode and it’s in no way supposed to represent the actual Star Wars universe. I only have seen videos of it, but I think it’s pretty funny. It’s just a gimmick, the same as having Arthas in a game like Guitar Hero or Ezio in Soul Calibur. The Lego Star Wars games were designed to be cute and funny and as far as I know nobody trashes them.

By: Dimitrios

Dimitrios — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:43:01 +0000

The first force unleashed was a fun little romp, and the story wasn’t bad either, surprisingly.

By: Sams

Sams — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:34:24 +0000

@Chelsea

Spot on in all accounts, that’s how I feel about it all.